Shelby County man held on $345,000 bond for 8 child sex charges
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
A Shelby County man has been charged with eight felony child sex abuse crimes.
Gerardo Garcia Valencia, 37, was booked into the Shelby County Jail on Friday, according to court records made public on Monday. He is charged with three counts of first-degree rape, three counts of sex abuse of a child, first-degree sex abuse and first-degree sodomy.
Few details have been released, but court records indicate the alleged crimes happened between January 2011 and December 2019. The victim in each case was under the age of 12, but court records don’t indicate if all cases are for the same victim. The cases were investigated by Alabaster police.